B-type star · blue-white star

HR 49

HR 49 is a blue-white star in the constellation Pegasus 459 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,175 K, about 1.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 54.65× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.3 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 459 years ago.

459 lybrightness mag 6.25A1p

Also catalogued as HD 1048 · HIP 1193

10,175 K
temperature
6.25
apparent magnitude
54.65× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A1p
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
459 years
at light speed from Earth
1.76×
as hot as the Sun
54.65×
the Sun's light output
0.51
absolute magnitude
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HR 49B-type
Sky regionPegasusthis direction
StarHR 1929 ly
StarPsi Peg43 ly
StarHR 5343 ly
StarEnifstar
StarScheatstar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Pegasus
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.3To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Pegasus

Star data from the HYG database v4.2 (Astronexus, CC BY-SA 4.0). Temperature and colour computed by gravityfinder from the B-V colour index; the illustration is generated from that temperature, not a photograph.